Device for cataloguing shoes



Oct. 14, 1930. w s R 1,778,646

DEVICE FOR CATALOGUING SHOES Filed Feb, 14, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ah" e1 1 0 W. SIHLER Oct. 14, 1930.

DEVICE FQR'CATALOGUING SHOES Filed Feb. 14, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 f' 4 abhor/M01407 Patented Oct. 14, 1930 UNITED STATES WILLIAM SII-ILEB, OF DECORAH, IOWA DEVICE FOR GATALOGUING SHOES Application filed February 14, 1930. Serial No. 428,460.

This invention aims to provide a novel means whereby slips used in the cataloguing of shoes may be conveniently arranged, so that a merchant may know at all times what 5 he has in stock, and what he should order.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and 15 claimed, it being understood that changes may be made in the precise embodiment of the in vention herein disclosed, within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings 2- Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being broken away;

Figure 2 is a top plan;

Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the mounting of the panel at its upper end;

Figure 4 is a sectional view showing the mounting of the panel at its lower end;

Figure 5 is a longitudinal section showing how the strips are held on the carrying plates, and how the carrying plates are held on the panels;

Figure 6 is a sectional view disclosing the latch mechanism;

Figure 7 is a plan of one of the strips.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a support 1 including a base 2 having a stem 3 received in the lower end of a standard 4 carrying a foot plate 5 and a cap plate 6. Frames 7 are provided and are supplied on their inner edges with horizontal inwardly projecting arms 8 having depending fingers 9 received in openings 10 in the plates 5 and 6. The frames 7, therefore, are supported for horizontal swinging movement on the member 1.

Within the frames 7 are located panels 11. The panels 11 and the frames 7 preferably are made of metal, the panels being supplied at their lower ends with stub shafts 12 j ournaled in bearing openings 14 formed in the lower portions of the frames 7. Near to their upper edges, the panels 11 are supplied with seats 15 which ,are struck outwardly in op.- posite directions'from the panels. The seats 15 are adapted to receive shafts 16 on the lower ends of screws 17 threaded into the upper portions of the frames 7, the screws 17 having turning heads 18. The construction is such that the panels 11 may be reversed on an axis represented by the shafts 16-12.

In order to hold the panels 11 in the same plane with the frames 7, latches 19, or bolts, are mounted for straight line sliding movement in the outer portionsof the frames 7. The latches 19 are adapted to be engaged with keepers 20 which are struck outwardly in opposite directions from the panels 11 at the outer edges of the panels, this construction being shown clearly inFigure 6 of the drawings. I 1

Figure 6 will serve, also, to illustrate how the seats 15 at the upper edges of the panels 11 are formed.

The latches 19 have depending ends 21. Retractile springs 22'are connected to the frames 7 V and to the depending ends 21 of the latches 19. The springs 22 tend to pull the latches 19 inwardly and keep-them engaged with the keepers 20, thereby to prevent the panels 11 from moving on their mounting 12-16 with respect to 'the frames 7.

Retainers 23 are struck from the panels 11. The retainers 23 extend vertically in opposite directions and are adapted to hold carrying plates 24 removably. The carrying plates 24 have oppositely extended retainers 25 struck from them. Strips 26, made of pasteboard, papers, or any other suitable materials, are shoved endwise into engagement with the retainers 25 on the carrying plates 24. The strips 26 are marked at 27 with any desired information relative to the merchandise which a shoe merchant has in stock or which is to be purchased.

The strips 26 are slid endwise into engagement with the retainers 25 on the carrying plates 24. The strips 26 may be shifted about as desired with respect to each carrying plate 24 and can be removed from each carrying plate. The carrying plates 24 may be moved into and out of engagement with the retainers 23 on the panels 11. The carrying plates 24, therefore, may be arranged as desired on the panels 11. By pulling the latches 19 out of engagement with the keepers 20 on the panels 11, the panels may be reversed about a vertical axis represented by the shafts 12 and 16. Owing to this feature, and owing to the fact that the frames 7 and the panels 11 can be swung horizontally on the hinged mounting afforded at 8910, the operator at all times has access to any of the record material represented by the strips 2 The device is simple in construction, but it affords a means whereby a shoe merchant, or any other merchant, can index and catalogue his stock, knowing what he has for sale, and what he needs to buy, at a glance.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a support, frames mounted for swinging movement on the support, panels, means for mounting the panels on the frames for swinging movement about an axis, and means for holding the panels against movement on said axis.

2. In a device of the class described, a support, frames mounted for horizontal swinging movement on the support, panels, means for mounting the panels on the frames for reversal about an axis, and means cooperating with the frames and with the panels for holding the panels against reversal on said axis.

3. In a device of the class described, a support, frames mounted for horizontal swinging movement on the support, panels carried by the frames, carrying plates detachably assembled with the panels, and slips detachably assembled with the carrying plates.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

WILLIAM SIHLER. 

